“I feel like it’s the Wayne that people want to hear.”
En av höjdpunkterna när Lil Wayne till slut släppte “Tha Carter V” i fjol var att få höra rapparen återförenas med Mannie Fresh. Nu menar den senare att det inte är omöjligt att vi får betydligt mer än de två låtarna från albumet. I en intervju med XXL, berättar producenten att han planerar ett gemensamt album med Lil Wayne titulerat “The Fresh Files”.
“People are asking when are we’re going to do this, but it can’t interfere with Tha Carter. We have to let it get to the point where they feel like now go ahead you can do this. I get it, because it’s not just him. It’s Universal and all of that. The label is like, because Mannie is your dude, we’re allowing Mannie to do this. It ain’t got nothing to do with Universal. It would be purely just me. The world is definitely going to get those records. If I could’ve put it out with Universal it would’ve been out.”
Förra året sa Mannie Fresh till LiveXLive att han och Weezy spelade in 13 låtar under sina “Carter V”-sessioner. I den senaste intervjun berättar han att albumet skulle innehålla de osläppt låtarna och originalversioner av låtarna “Start This Shit Off Right” och “Perfect Strangers”. Fresh menar att de versionerna var betydligt annorlunda och indikerar att han inte är särskilt nöjd med resultatet.
“I feel like it’s the Wayne that people want to hear. The format of those songs are even different from the two that are on this album. The format on ‘Start This Shit Off Right’ — that wasn’t the way the song was put together. There were some people that felt it was too musical and they dumbed the song down.”
“On the project that I’m putting out, you’re going to get the version of how the song was before it was touched. When you do something with people, you have to compromise. By no means am I arguing with it. At the end of the day, that’s Wayne’s baby. Tha Carter is his thing. I get it. Tha Carter was important to him. Wayne was gone for so long, so I knew why he was so protective of how he did this one.”
Veteranen menar också att han har betydligt mer material med Lil Wayne.
“The cool thing is that there are some diehard Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne fans that want to hear Wayne over Mannie Fresh beats without engineers tampering with it or without a room full of people going, ‘It would be cool if we moved this here. So the ones you’re getting from me are the way Mannie Fresh would have did it. They are unreleased songs. Shit, I got about two albums worth of songs on Wayne.”
Mannie Fresh har inte delat med sig av några detaljer kring när albumet skulle kunna släppas, men det verkar mer vara en distributionsfråga än något annat. Tills vi vet mer, lyssna på “Start This Shit Off Right” och “Perfect Strangers” från “Tha Carter V” nedan!
